Mother Teresa To Become Saint In 2016
Mother Teresa will be declared a saint of the Catholic Church in late 2016, according to an Italian news report. AGI, an Italian news agency, reported Wednesday that Pope Francis will canonize the nun on September 4 or 5 of next year. Teresa, who was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, died on September 5, 1997. In 2002,…
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anothertoothpick November 19th, 2015 at 08:38
MT was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction. And she was a friend to the worst of the rich.
Larry Schmitt November 19th, 2015 at 08:52
But you will never convince the majority of Catholics of that. If I tried to explain that to my sister and her husband, who are extreme right wing Catholics, they might physically attack me.
rg9rts November 19th, 2015 at 09:08
I’ll bet they want to put a hit out on the pope too….
Larry Schmitt November 19th, 2015 at 09:16
I haven’t asked them for their opinion of him, but I know they can’t be happy about his attitude to gays and abortion (an abomination, according to them).
rg9rts November 19th, 2015 at 09:30
I wouldn’t be surprised
Gindy51 November 19th, 2015 at 11:56
Fundie Catholics, the worst of the bunch.
Larry Schmitt November 19th, 2015 at 11:58
And he’s a convert, which is like an ex-smoker.
anothertoothpick November 19th, 2015 at 14:23
It always drops my jaw at how positively convinced they are over these myths.
It seems their brains shut down when you try to introduce reason into the conversation, so I just ask “if Jesus cured a blind person, why didn’t he just cure blindness?
rg9rts November 19th, 2015 at 09:08
good catholic to the end
Larry Schmitt November 19th, 2015 at 09:09
On the subject of miracles, if god can perform a miracle in order to get a saint canonized, that means he is deliberately not performing miracles to cure other people, including children, of horrible, terminal illnesses. That’s the Christians’ loving god. Very selective in whom he loves.
Dwendt44 November 19th, 2015 at 11:35
Phony as heck. There are no ‘miracles’. Trickery, delusions, ignorance yes, but no miracles.
Robert M. Snyder November 20th, 2015 at 01:24
If God were constantly suspending the laws of physics, then God could not hold people accountable for their actions because the consequences of those actions would be unpredictable. In order to have accountability, the physical universe has to behave in a consistent manner. Therefore, the more miracles you have, the less accountability you have.
bpollen November 20th, 2015 at 02:20
You posit Gawd can alter the laws of physics, but you think that he wouldn’t be able to contain, localize, or even negate broader impacts? Or that Gawd didn’t write a back door into Existence 1.0?
Robert M. Snyder November 20th, 2015 at 03:19
I posited no such thing. My point was that you can’t believe in miracles and accountability at the same time. I never said that miracles exist. Personally, I don’t believe in miracles.
bpollen November 20th, 2015 at 05:23
“If God were constantly suspending the laws of physics…”
Your own words betray you. In order for the rest of your sentence to makes sense or have any context, you have to posit capabilities of Gawd. Which you did. If A, then B. You have to posit the A before you can then reach a conclusion (B) based on the existence of A.
And miracles and accountability are not mutually exclusive. The very fact that something is a miracle means it is out of the ordinary. That would mean, if they are intrinsically opposite, that the ordinary would be accountability. Since you don’t believe in miracles, then you just tried a thought experiment that fails on its own internal logic.
Gindy51 November 19th, 2015 at 11:55
As evil a cow as ever was born. Made people suffer because she was miserable herself.
Bunya November 19th, 2015 at 14:40
I wonder how the pope knows she’s in heaven – or if heaven even exists?
http://www.theonion.com/article/pope-francis-clarifies-god-just-one-many-immortal–51470
StoneyCurtisll November 19th, 2015 at 19:20
Mother Teresa was no saint..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfSY8ebctso
bpollen November 20th, 2015 at 02:22
The canonization of saints has been BS since forever.